one house at a time
as vicentinas
locally grown houses
In flora, when common species hit ground in Costa Vicentina, its characteristics change and a new breed is born.
Architecture should do so as well.
as vicentinas is our take on the development of a new local species.
One house at a time.
matoso
SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE
LOCATION
120 sqm
AREA
BONUS TRACK
maio
SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE
LOCATION
125 sqm
AREA
BONUS TRACK
outeiro
SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE
LOCATION
90 sqm
AREA
BONUS TRACK
moinho
SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE
LOCATION
40 sqm
AREA
BONUS TRACK
tonel
FOUR HOUSES CONDOMINIUM
LOCATION
bica
SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE
LOCATION
152 sqm
AREA
BONUS TRACK
flexible plan
Every house plan allows for a unit (room+bathroom = small studio) to be used integrated or separated through an independent access.
Rent it, lend it, share it, keep it.
sun facing rooftop
Sunny South, Windy North.
Each vicentina has a rooftop solving this equation and extending unlimited views over the surroundings.
inhabitable windows
Windows thick enough to inhabit.
The openings are designed as spatial displays to live the exterior rather than just framing it.
endemic green facade
Each vicentina is a new piece in an existing fauna and flora environment. In that sense, the facade is used to kindly add flora (and, indirectly, fauna) to the place it is inserted to.
Compensating construction with plantation right on the spot, not somewhere else.
locally sourced materials
Both Alentejo and Algarve have a century-old amazing range of traditional materials, colors, architectural solutions and construction techniques.
Every vicentina is an opportunity to learn from and use this patrimony.
territory color palette
The tectonic landscape of Costa Vicentina
turns visible the beautiful layers it's made of.
As vicentinas, at its small scale, extends
this unique palette into the thin new layer they're adding to the existing territory.
Pedro Barata and Pedro Silva are the co-founders of as vicentinas.
They have been traveling to the south of Portugal to surf for twenty years, to design houses for ten and to advise and invest in real estate for five.
Pedro and Pedro are also the founders of Anarchlab, the award-winning architecture company based in Lisbon and Porto (and now Vila do Bispo).
While Anarchlab has both architecture and construction management parts covered in as vicentinas, frequent site visits and preferred local partners continuously survey the local real estate.
picture taken by Alex del Rio for Condé Nast Traveler
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